Prof Wayne Visser
@waynevisser.bsky.social
🌍 World top 10 pracademic in sustainable & regenerative business, innovation & leadership [ref: ChatGPT]. Author: 44 books, incl. international bestseller Thriving. Fellow @ CISL (Cambridge U.), Prof @ CPBS (Porto). Poet. Hopetimist 🌻 www.waynevisser.com
#Biodiversity small wins, like the future of the #numbat in #Australia. There are now around 3,000 nationwide, & in Dryandra numbers have increased ten-fold. It’s recently been taken off the international endangered species list & is now classified as near-threatened. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
White storks have returned to England’s Midlands region for the first time in more than 600 years, thanks to a successful reintroduction programme at the #Knepp Estate #naturepositive
This special edition of the #Purpose #Inspired newsletter is out www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-s...
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Hello friends I hope you have the opportunity of taking a break this summer/winter (depending which hemisphere you're in). I trust this will give you some time and headspace to dive a little deeper on...
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Could this nut be the boost that Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) need? A $3 billion project to plant macauba palm trees in Brazil across an area larger than the city of L.A. The planned biorefinery could produce 20,000 barrels of #SAF up from global output of 41,000 barrels a day in 2025
🎙️ The Dancing With Systems podcast launched yesterday. "We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!" — Donnella Meadows This insight is at are at the heart of our new podcast. Check it out here or wherever you consume your podcasts: dancingwithsystems.buzzsprout.com
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A #Finnish town has slashed emissions from its district heating system by 70% with the help of the world’s largest sand #battery. The 13m-tall silo – in the town of Pornainen – contains 2,000 tonnes of crushed soapstone, which is heated using #renewable electricity, often at cheap, off peak rates.
#Deforestation in the Brazilian #Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, according to fresh data from the country’s National Space Agency. In the first half of 2026, some 500 sq miles of #rainforest was cleared, compared to 807 sq miles over the same period in 2025 – a 38% decrease.
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, has been mooted as a potential treatment for anorexia nervosa, when combined with talking therapy, following a trial led by Imperial College London
Emblehope and Burngrange Estate (pictured) in Northumberland - around 3,000 hectares of degraded land in the north of England – roughly equivalent to 4,200 football pitches – is set to be restored for nature by Restore
This day in 1918 Nelson #Mandela was born. A promising career as a lawyer was cut short and he spent 27 years in jail before becoming South Africa’s first democratic president. Here is my #poem: He Lived Among Us A Tribute to Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) www.waynevisser.com/poetry/he-li...
The lithium-ion battery powers eight billion mobile phones, hundreds of millions of laptops and rapidly growing fleets of electric cars and energy-storage banks. But there’s a new contender breaking into the battery market go.nature.com/4waiKQo
Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world
Nature - Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy...
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Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.
Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto
A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.
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It won’t reverse the clean energy wave, but it’s an unnecessary pandering to the fossil fuel lobby
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4w agoDeeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New milestone for #renewables in Europe: #Solar was the bloc’s largest single source of power in June, ahead of nuclear (21%), gas (15%), wind (14%) and hydro (12%), as coal generated just 8%, according to data from the energy thinktank Ember.
Sodium-ion #batteries promise to be cheaper, safer & more environmentally friendly than the lithium-ion cells in #EVs. #CATL — the world’s largest #battery producer — will start mass-producing sodium-ion batteries by the end of the year Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #sodiumionbatteries
The 2026 #Environmental Performance Index is out, ranking 177 countries on 47 environmental indicators. #Estonia ranks #1. European countries hold all but one of the top 20 positions, with #Luxembourg, the #UK, #Finland, and the #Netherlands are top 5. #Laos is bottom, just ahead of #India
former staff from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s climate . gov website have launched a new website, climate.us which aims to restore access to “accurate, accessible and scientifically rigorous” climate information. It was funded by more than 2,500 private donations.
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#Solar #energy means competition for land, right? WRONG. Besides #agrivoltaics, how about solar panels between #railway tracks@ Sun-Ways installed solar on a 100-metre stretch of railway in western Switzerland, which produced 18.2 MWh of electricity – while 11,000 trains rattled overhead.
Some 400 years after being pushed to local extinction in England, #beavers were introduced to Paradise Fields – a 10-hectare stretch of land – in 2023. They have helped alleviate flooding but also boosted biodiversity: with 4 new species spotted in less that a year Image: Eliot Sachot
It feels like everything is going backwards - and yet the green economy has topped $10tn (£7.6tn) in market value for the first time, according to a report by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Let's not give up. We are making a difference #greeneconomy www.lseg.com/content/dam/...
Protecting and restoring #nature is so often seen as a cost, whereas the opposite is true. Nature can save us millions, maybe even billions - in this case in avoided flood damage #beavers #naturepositive www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/c...
This city had a flooding problem. So it turned to an animal that had been extinct there for 400 years | CNN
A few hundred feet from a McDonalds’ and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and polluted roads, is a lush and thriving urban wetland, built by very unusual residents.
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For the first time since the Middle Ages #Italy now has more land covered in #forests than farms - over 100,000 sq.kms or 37%. #Nature recovery is mot only possible, it is already happening #naturepositive
Happily we are entering a period where we will see CO2 emissions peak and start to fall in country after around the world. #Australia is the latest to join this exclusive club with carbon emissions shrinking by 2% in 2025, mainly due to a rooftop #solar revolution
We often only think of #EVs in terms of their climate benefits, but let’s not forget that fossil fuel cars kill millions of people every year due to air pollution. #China is already reaping the benefits from the switch to electric #cleantech #climatetech www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Electric vehicles cut pollution in China — and prevent 260,000 premature deaths
Having fewer fossil-fuel-powered cars on the road is reducing some pollutants, but not others.
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